The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-15
RAILROAD MATTERS.
rlIE RIG anowrn OF BUSINESS
On tho Ohio River Rond makes II Difficult
to Keep tho Rolling kupto lt-Num.
crous Local I,ailroni Projects which
look PromisiuE Just Now.

II ono out Of five Of the railroad projects
which arc now in promising shape In this
locality ma.0rlalize, there will be no lack
for the new Union RAILROAD bridge
when 1t Ia built; and from the growth Of
business on the old roadB 1t looks 90 II the
bridge would have all tho traffic II can &C.
commodate. The blockade on the Balti.
more & Ohio "a no. yet much relieved.
The Pennsylvania Company'a business
heresbouts Is also thriving, and so great
has been the growth OF freight traffic on
tho Ohio River road that tho Company 10
Obliged to order new cars and new engines
at frequent intervals. The GteOl rails for
tho Ohio River railroad extension have
boen received, and tho track will DO laid
from Huntington to tho Ksnawha river
by Christmas. The brldga over the
KNnawhs river will be completed before
spring. When 1t IL done the traffic will Of
course be MI the greater.
Recently this company ordered from
tho Brooka Locomotive shop, OF Philadel.
phia, ten new freight engines, and they
arc expected 10 arrive hero to-day over
the PAn.Hsndle track. Four OF those are
huge ten-wheelerH, while the other ak are
ordinary elghtwheslera. The frat regu.
lar through freight from Pt. Pleasant on
thia road will make her run next Sunday.
AN INTERESTING RuMoR.
Tho Woodaleld, Ohio, Spirit has the
following: gg1
The Gale Of tho right Of way OF the pro.
posed Ohio Valley Railroad to the Louis.
vile & Nashville Company 10 under dis.
custom. The contamination OF tho pro.
ject would result In one OF the grandest
trunk lines in America passing through
Eastern Monroe county. A through line
would BIO formed from Lake Eric to the
Gulf OF Mexico, and tho advantages to any
section Of country 1t would plss through
would BIO immOnBc.
DIRECTORS RESIGN.
Senator A. ?. German, Of Maryland, hae
resigned his position as q director Of the
West Virginia Central Railway Company,
This was made necessary by Senator Cor
mans being appointed by tho Board Of
Public Works oil Maryland to represent
the States intOrent as ono OF the directora
OF tho Baltimore & OHIO Railroad. Mr.,
William Keyser, newly elected Balti-
more & Ohio director, has also resigned
his place in the West Virginia Central di.
rectory. In questions Of interest to the
two companiea the position Of these gen.
tlemsn might DO misunderstood, and their
retirement 10 understood to be intended 10
avoid such probabilities.
BIG LINE ON PAPER.
The Steubenville Ga:site says: The New
Lisbon, East Liverpool 4 Southern Rail.
road Company wss permanently organic.
ed Under the State laws OF Ohio Monday
night, Tho directors: Daniel Crawford
Of Calcutta, O.; Hon. J. Y. Williams, OF
Madison, O.; Ezra Frost and D. H. Smith,
Of New Lisbon, and George Goodwin, O.
Metsch, W. ". BARKER, John r. Wylie
and George Morley, Of Eaat Liverpool. 1t
was decided to increaee the capital stock
to 5000 This road has aecured tho
right OF way from NeS Lisbon TO Liver.
pool, and the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio Company has agreed to lease this
branch for % years ns coon 90 i. is com.
p!eted, upon certain gusrantee,and place
rolling stock OF tho Erie system upon it
This is the road referred to in Gazette in
tervieT with an up.riyer manufacturer g
ehost time since. Ii tho proper efforts ba
mado it will DO extended down the risel
to Bellaire whore connection will DO made
with the Baltimore & Ohio aud Cleveland
Lorain & Wheeling Railroads..